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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN FORESTRY: Concepts, tools and lessons learned
May 17, 2012
MFRC Northeast Landscape Planning Committee
Stephen Handler│ [email protected]
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TWO QUESTIONS:1. Why does climate change
matter?
2. What can forest managers do?
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WHY DOES CLIMATE CHANGE MATTER?Climate change increases the number and severity of many threats to forests
Disturbance
More disturbance
Stress
More stress
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WHY DOES CLIMATE CHANGE MATTER?Climate change increases the risks associated with forest management
Long-term productivity
Forest cover
Ecosystem Services
Products
Values
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Ecosystem-based adaptation activities build on sustainable management, conservation, and restoration of forests.
WHAT CAN MANAGERS DO? ADAPT.Adaptation is the adjustment of human or natural systems in response to climate change.
Parry et al. 2007, SCBD 2009, Groves et al. 2010
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ADAPTATION. −Actions to reduce the vulnerability of forests to
climate change −Positions forests to become more healthy, resistant,
& resilient
MITIGATION.−Use of forests to sequester carbon, provide
renewable energy from biomass, & avoid carbon losses from fire, mortality, conversion, etc.
THESE ARE DIFFERENT, BUT CAN WORK TOGETHER.
Spittlehouse and Stewart 2003, Malmsheimer et al. 2008
FOREST ADAPTATION & MITIGATION
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ADAPTATION OPTION #1: RESISTANCE
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Improve the defenses of the forest against effects of change.
Short-termHigh-value
ADAPTATION OPTION #1: RESISTANCE
Millar et al. 2007Photo: USFS
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Accommodate gradual change, usually returning to a prior condition after disturbance
ADAPTATION OPTION #2: RESILIENCE
Millar et al. 2007
Examples: Thinning stands to improve overall health & vigor Management of vegetation following disturbance
Photo: USFS
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Intentionally accommodate change, enabling ecosystems to adaptively respond
ADAPTATION OPTION #3: RESPONSE
Scheller, White, & Duveneck
Millar et al. 2007
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Strategies and approaches fill the gap between concepts and action:
ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #1
Options
Broad concepts:
Resistance ResilienceResponse
Strategies
Regionally-specific
ecological and
managerial conditions
Approaches
Actions that can be
applied to a single
ecosystem or forest type
Tactics
Prescriptions for individual
sites and management
objectives
Applicable across large areas Location & situation specific
Janowiak et al. 2011
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Strategies can serve multiple purposes: ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #2
Swanston and Janowiak 2012
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ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #3
Three R’s can occur in tandem across the landscape
Specific tactics are unique to each individual owner and manager
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Management goals and PLACE should drive the process
ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #4
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Use a variety of information sources to locally interpret climate projections
ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #5
Change (F)
8
4
0
-4
-8
Summer Temp
Winter Temp
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Learn by doingADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #6
Swanston and Janowiak 2012
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ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #7Take action slowly & deliberately
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ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #8Think about the bigger picture
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ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #9
Desired Future Condition vs. Desired Future Function
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ADAPTATION PRINCIPLES: #10Plan for a range of future climate conditions
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FOREST ADAPTATION RESOURCES Menu of approaches and strategies for climate change
adaptation Designed for a variety of land managers Tailored to local forest types Workbook process Does not make recommendations
or decisions for managers Published version for northern WI
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/40543
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THANK YOUwww.climateframework.org
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DISCUSSION QUESTION:
How could Landscape Planning incorporate the ideas of climate change adaptation?
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WHAT CAN MANAGERS DO? ADAPT.
Desired Future Condition
TIME
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WHAT CAN MANAGERS DO? ADAPT.
Desired Future Condition
?
Climate ChangeTrajectory
TIME
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WHAT CAN MANAGERS DO? ADAPT.
Desired Future Condition
?
Climate ChangeTrajectory
Increasing resources needed to maintain DFC
TIME
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WHAT CAN MANAGERS DO? ADAPT.
Desired Future Condition
?
Climate ChangeTrajectory
Adaptation
TIME